"you see there’s clearly some interest running the other way" - it feels like this is a way more prevalent trend than any revival of old bodice-ripper stuff. Women-generated fantasies in online content these days seems more about men-as-prey (e.g. Hannibal), men being debauched. What's intriguing is there's no women in those fantasies. It's either man debauched by unseen forces, or by another man. Which is an interesting question about impossible desires, at least under existing sexual scripts.